[mythtv-users] Need some help transcoding for N900

Tim Ashman tim at ashmans.net
Mon Jan 11 15:11:21 UTC 2010


On Monday 11 January 2010 07:03:20 am aaron wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:21, Tim Ashman <tim at ashmans.net> wrote:
> > Thank you.  I'll give this a try
>
> I just got my N900 on Friday and attempted to play a recording
> (standard def, recorded with PVR250, so MPEG-2 format) and it played
> just fine via UPnP, without doing any transcoding (was only a very
> quick test). Prior to attempting, I did install the package to support
> MPEG-2 on Maemo... I forget the name of it at the moment.... was
> probably in Maemo-Extras.
>
> The N900 is significantly more powerful than the N810/N800... so it
> shouldn't require things to be transcoded down nearly as low as the
> older devices did. Of course, it might be nice to do so in order to
> cut out letterboxing, etc... and possibly to reduce the CPU
> requirements (improve battery life).
>
> Checking my App Manager now... it might have been the "Extra Decoders
> Support" package which added the MPEG-2 support I needed.
>
> aaron
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Thanks,  yes the n900 is quite the machine.  I believe the message I when I 
try to directly play the recordings on myth is the unable to play format.  I 
record in the naive myth format so I think I will need to transcode to 
something,  however I will make sure I have the extra decorders installed

tim



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